Someone should post a link to this article in the comment section of any and every pop culture article on NPR.org. I'm not saying that ALL, or even most, of the commentariat there are pretentious, I-don't-own-a-TV douchewads who bemoan the intellectual state of the world every time something's posted about something…

I remember getting that first issue in the mail for free since I was a member of the "Nintendo Fun Club" (why yes, I WAS horribly unpopular, thanks for asking!), and then getting the subscription ($15 for twelve issues). I read all my earlier ones to tatters within a year of getting them - it was the equivalent of…

Agreed - I re-read it a little while ago and I spent the majority of the time angry knowing that Lex wasn't going to get eaten or at least horribly mauled. The scriptwriter for the movie did everyone a huge favor by making Lex older, smarter, tougher, and NOT an obnoxious brat. And Ian Malcolm is far more smug and…

Yeah, you had the "overworld" where you kept going back and forth between ports to buy power-ups with the conch shells you collected, Then you would randomly hit the underwater scenes where the goal was to whittle Jaws' health down to nothing if he was in the area and collect said shells.

Tagline: "You'll watch, because fuck you"

If Jennifer Hudson's career continues on this trajectory, her next film is probably going to be titled Splat: The Musical

I was surprised how bleak the Megaman X series got, given how cartoonish the original Megaman series was. The first X game ended with Zero dead and X pondering if it's possible for humans and Reploids to coexist. X2 was more of the same, but at least Zero was alive again. Then X3's ending tells you that X will one…

Mine was from the "Fester's Quest" NES game. And I still wound up liking The Addams Family regardless.

That was me when I visited Reykjavik and schlepped halfway across the city on foot to try a restaurant the guidebook touted as having some of the best Icelandic soul food in the country. Difference was, I was traveling alone. Fun fact: the category of "Icelandic soul food" includes delicacies like sheep's-head…

I still remember the first Christmas bonus I got, when I worked at a startup search engine back in '99: all employees got a small box of Frango mints and a CD case with the company logo.

I think the levels were huge because they had to be to accommodate Sonic's abilities, otherwise all the levels would take less than a minute to go through. That's actually not all that hard to do on many of the Act 1 levels as it is, I don't think.

Part of why the Mario games are so much more endearing and enduring to me is that there's clearly so much more thought put into the Mario universe from the very first game six(?) years before Sonic was released.

Maybe, or it's just a result of me being a pre-Internet 9-year-old at the time I played it - no strategy guide either, in fact I probably would never have finished it if the very first issue of Nintendo Power hadn't serendipitously covered the second quest in detail. I didn't know whether I was relieved or…

Level 8 was a bitch - it's the one where the entrance is in a wall behind the river the waterfall empties into. Level 7 was just as bad, if not worse, what with you needing to burn every damn tree and only having the blue candle to do it with because the red candle was the special item hidden in the damn level you…

Indeed. From Roger Ebert's review of "The Last Song":

Since my guess last week for this week's resolution was completely wrong, I'm going to double down and guess where they go from here, if it gets renewed.

It's kind of a mindfuck that I'm extremely surprised how extremely UNsurprising everything turned out to be. And I'd hate for the series to end on this note, but then I can't imagine a fitting end for these terrible, terrible people anyway.

Oh man, I thought this was another adaptation of one of schmaltz-meister Nicholas Sparks' crap-o-rama novels. On the plus side, this is not - but on the minus side, this means there's yet another shitty romance writer getting their stuff turned into movies.

Frankly, ever since the hermaphrodite twist regarding Cartman's mom on South Park (Christ, that was really almost 20 years ago?!?), I've had more fondness for more obvious, or at least guessable, twists.

Calling it - Veronica Deane has a twin or a split personality. They need some way to explain the imposter from the first episode of the season and why she didn't recognize Archer in this episode (and also why she's kind of a bitch all of a sudden).